Fresh Intelligentsia: Coast 2 Coast

• New York State Bar Association and Legal.io have teamed up to launch a lawyer referral platform, reports Robert Ambrogi (Law Sites). NYSBA is the largest voluntary state bar in the U.S., with 72,000 members. Legal.io develops referral networks and marketplace platforms for the legal industry, which are used by organizations and professionals to deliver legal services from intake to outcome. Co-founders Tony Lai and Pieter Gunst are both CodeX Fellows.

The two organizations “have teamed up to launch a state-of-the-art lawyer referral platform that they say will significantly expand access to legal services in that state,” writes Ambrogi. “It will serve New York residents seeking legal help as well as businesses anywhere seeking advice on New York law,” writes Ambrogi.

Jim McKenna

• James “Jim” McKenna is now Chief Information Officer at Fenwick & West, and is resident in the Mountain View office. He previously was Director of Infrastructure and Administrative Systems at Morrison & Foerster (San Francisco). McKenna moved to Fenwick in August, 2016 as Director of Information Techology.

McKenna served on the Law Technology News board when I was at ALM—and I can confirm that he writes the funniest Christmas Holiday letters than anyone else on the planet. He succeeds Matthew Kesner, who also served on the LTN board and was a tremendous help to me during my tenure.